The Mormons have this marriage record, which mentions a Seseare Trahant. Any connection? In the image it looks like "Seseare" might really be "Sescare"; the "c" has a tiny loop, so that that someone in a hurry might mistake it for an "e".

Name: Hormidas Voghel
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 10 Nov 1902
Event Place: New Bedford, Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Birthplace: Canada
Birth Year (Estimated): 1877
Father's Name: Louis
Mother's Name: Olympe Anthen

Spouse's Name: Marie Fortier
Spouse's Father's Name: Godfroi
****** Spouse's Mother's Name: Seseare Trahant *****************
Certificate Number: 325
GS Film number: 2057535 , Digital Folder Number: 4332427 , Image Number: 00432
Citing this Record

"Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4... : accessed 19 March 2015), Seseare Trahant in entry for Hormidas Voghel and Marie Fortier, 10 Nov 1902; citing Vol.524 P.289 L.829, New Bedford, Massachusetts, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,057,535.

Marie is boarding in New Bedford in 1900; she came to the USA in 1895. Her occupation on the marriage record is "Weaver", on the 1900 "Spooler, textile mill". Hormidas is a loom fixer on the marriage record. I'd bet they met at work, but it could be they worked for different mills and met at church, or the French League picnic, or boarded in the same house...

It looks like Godfrey and Sescare came down from Canada for the wedding and went back; they are nowhere to be found in 1900 or 1910. I don't subscribe to the International records.

Not always and not immediately. Arizona and Missouri both have collections of death certificates on-line, but they are for people who died 50 years or more ago.

There are several "current" files. The largest is the Social Security Death Index, which gets updated every calendar quarter or so.

http://www.stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html
is the best portal for it.

If you know the city and fear the death was recent, his/her obituary might be in the local newspaper's on-line version.

All of this assumes your friend was a legal resident of the USA. And, not being on the file or in the obits doesn't prove he/she is alive. For example (physically possible, but highly improbable) he could have become homeless, gone for a walk in a forest, fallen into an abandoned mine shaft and died; no one notices one less homeless person on the street, and his body won't ever be found.

I spent 10 minutes poking around and couldn't. You'll probably have to write to the county keeper of deeds and ask.

Genealogy isn't the proper category, but I couldn't find a reasonable one, so I didn't move your question..

If your grandparents are alive, mentally competent and speaking to you, you could ask them who THEIR parents and grandparents were. If they all know, you'll have 8 great grandparents and 16 GG GPs.

The county clerk has public birth, marriage and death records, which means the public (You) can buy copies of them, not that they are free for anyone to browse through.

Obituaries, in old newspapers on microfilm at the public library, are free - there is a 25 cent charge to print each page, though. They often give a lot of information. Wedding articles do too, sometimes, especially if the bride uses her sisters as maids of honor and the groom uses his brothers as ushers.

You can post as many of the following facts as you know about someone (someone dead; we don't do living people) here, with the question "Who were the parents of ___" and we regulars will take a stab at it:

Name
Birth date and place (Town, county, state)
Marriage date and place (Town, county, state)
Death date and place (Town, county, state)
Spouse's name - maiden name, for wives
Children and siblings' names

One person per question, and don't ask more than one question a day.